Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

March 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 14 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Previously…

Prompt word:

FLOAT

The Six Sentence Café & Bistro never really closes, it is always: open-for-business/ full-service menu/free-live-entertainment available, for anyone possessed of the desire to find it and, upon arrival, the Will to walk through its doors.

As with Nature herself, there are intermittent periods of quiet, as when Hazel Grover braced the tall, thin man for information relating to her employer, Ian Devereaux, being sent to Chicago by Lou Caesare, specifically any danger inherent in his path but not necessarily obvious, think Titanic and a football field-sized iceberg floating in the North Atlantic, if a person knew it was there, there’s a reasonable expectation that lives might have been spared.

“I’m here because I suspect you’re privy to information about the artifact everyone is so eager to get their hands on,” Hazel leaned across the round table, the un-lit cigarette tremulously balanced on her lips, a tool the manufacturers of laser pointers would kill to own the rights to, “So tell me something you know that I should.”

The tall, thin man sat back in his chair, “What direct and forthright question, but with all due respect,” leaning over the table, the Proprietor flicked the flint wheel of his lighter, the flare of yellow-blue light, like a slow-motion flashbulb obscured the features of his face while simultaneously creating a fading afterimage, ” I must caution patience with my answer.”

Saying that Hazel squirmed in her seat would not do justice to both the verb and the noun, the only valid assessment of the woman’s response to her host would be to say, he paused, quite unintentionally.

Genesis tells us that the Creator gave Adam and Eve dominion over all the Earth and all it’s creatures, if I may quote, “…that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,” will suffice it to say, there are forms of life that,” this pause was more of a person enjoying a private joke, “do not conform to Divine edict; your employer would do well to keep that in mind as he travels to Chicago.”

RePrint Ruesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 10, 2026 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scoots and rogers)

There’s an old saying* ‘It’s immeasurably easier to continue to write than it is to begin to write. Given the fact that this skill, (as most), improves only with practice, it is good advice to keep at it.

so following is a slightly abridged RePrint from twelve or so years ago:

the Wakefield Doctrine the ego of the Introvert

April 29, 2014

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Hey! New Readers!! Now that you’ve had time to read and understand the basic principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, lets start you off with a common comparison problem:

“…nearly every popular personality type system has a category labeled: ‘Introvert’ Here is the brief Quiz (which, if you don’t pass, may result in your not ever feeling successful …with any aspect of your life*). The Quiz: a) why is it everyone likes to believe that they are an ‘Introvert’ and 2) why is the Wakefield Doctrine vastly superior to nearly every one of these other personality theories, on the matter of ‘Introversion’? …Times up!! (ha, ha… of course, time’s not up clark!! you will never believe that it is possible that you have only one chance!)

Answers:

a) nope! you have to answer this one, you’re the frickin people who run around, telling your friends that you’re an ‘Introvert’ on the basis of the results of the cool, new personality test that you found on ‘the Facebook’

2) ok… this one we’ll provide, (seeing how you didn’t read down this far, to see if this Quiz was for real or not). the Wakefield Doctrine is wonderful in it’s approach to ‘Introversion’, because it does not ask the person taking the test if they believe the description (of ‘Introversion’) applies to them. As a result, there is no problem with whether, when confronted with the questions: ‘I am sometimes reluctant to speak before a plenary session of the UN Security Council” or ‘when making love I occasionally like to be in separate beds‘ or ‘my friends often are unable to pick me out of the police lineup‘, we can answer: ‘Never’ ‘Sometimes’ or ‘Are you kidding me?!?!’ The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that the behavior labeled ‘Introversion’ is available to and manifested by all three personality types, that it is how the individual ‘relates themselves to the world around them’, that makes a person Introverted. Now, the first time Reader of the Doctrine might say, “those clark people!! they’re Introverts because they mumble and have no eye contact and can’t seem to sit up straight in a chair and when you’re trying to put a move on one of them, even when you know that they’re totally into you, somehow you find yourself having a heartfelt conversation about the Peloponnesian War or the Secrets of the Rosicrucians!” clarks exhibit many of the characteristics of an introvert, but they will not remain un-noticed a second longer, once they decide that they have something to contribute. The first time Reader might say, “how can those scotts be introverted?? no damn way, they’re totally out in the front of the room.” True, (most of the time), but scotts have a way of withdrawing that is indicated by the tone of their shouting/joking/hitting-upon-ing. This is simple misdirection, much as a mother lion might leave the cubs under a bush, run at the much larger predator stalking them and then head off in entirely a different direction, drawing attention away from the bush. An injured or overly tired scott will exhibit this as a form of Introversion. and rogers? when they are feeling off or are suffering, they will simply find something in you to cause you discomfort, which will serve to take the attention off themselves… hiding in ~~pain-sight~~ plain sight,

Study up binyons, new Readers! There will be more quizzes and tests and exams and such.

Experienced Readers? yeah, we ran out of time yesterday…and we’re kinda up against it again today! But, seeing how you guys are so damn adept, here’s a couple of insights:

do not be concerned with the questions: is this worthwhile, will anyone notice that I have done this, does this make up for… (anything)

do be (very) concerned with the questions: is this something that I can feel satisfied with, does this satisfaction start and end with me, do I care if anyone notices

No! yeah, I’ll definitely make you experienced people the priority tomorrow for sure. As a matter of fact, as a test to see who’s still reading: send in questions.

* ha ha just kidding, you’ll be successful with some aspect of your life…. you know, if you’re a roger, you’ll always be successful (as far as what you’ll tell anyone in earshot.. of course, at night, when you can’t smother your mind in reading, coerced love-making and/or compulsive stamp-collecting, you might wish you had studied harder, but then you’ll recall how poorly the blog appeared to be written and relax with a session of grading the quality of wool of sheep jumping a fence. scotts? satisfied with their lives? ha! ain’t no time to go looking for some kind of standard to measure up to!! gotta keep moving!)

*well, as old as anything can be in the first Quarter(ish) of a century.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 9, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Fine! We’ll start with something that is not quite un-original:

From the perspective of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine;

‘hope springs eternal’ (rogers)

‘ambition never dies’ (clarks)

‘hunger is life’ (scotts)

There you go! An insight into Life that, while anything but conventional, affords one a refreshing sense of the wonder of human reality.

ok, oh-kay!

One more ProTip:

the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful(TToT) bloghop. An exercise in the appreciation of the positive elements of daily life, each week participants link their own list of ten things (in their lifes) that have elicited and otherwise inspired the all-too-rare (speaking only for ourselfs, of course) state of gratitude. As with any exercise, repetition enhances the capacity to continue. With the state. Of Gratitude.

ya know?

Following is our list.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) meltage: temperatures above freezing!

6) random photo (well, yeah, even though it’s old and all, ain’t no statue of limitations on grats.)

7) the tech to make ‘all this’ (lol quantity people, not quality) possible

8) something, something

9) continuing (relatively) good health and/or physical condition (chipping ice and such, don’cha know)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…end of work-week wrap-up”

March 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 5 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Well, that was fun! (This week’s installment in the Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro, that is.) Plus we had Comments from FoTD, Cynthia and Misky, Mimi and Denise.

So… Friday, huh?

note the date. After reading the Post, we looked above the Welcome to.. and thought, damn… in the ’20s. Then, like an apologetic childhood monster from fever dreams (back when/at an age getting your temperature was so not as easy as today),the sound of multiplication tables moved up the 1:00 am hallway, (which, at his point in the dream by virtue of the malign manipulation of time, space and fear had become at least 100 yards long to the closest non-threatening bedroom)… Math sez, it sez, “I hate to be the one to tell you this (“My god!! Math is a roger!!!)… but that was Six Years (carry the zero) Ago.”

Well, we will work on this week’s TToT and peek around the corner of this Friday.

Damn! Fridays used to mean something. It had a Power, like a benign despot, promising things it had no right to convey, yet as a citizen of the world of ‘what will be will be’… we accepted it. In return for a sense of …. the world making sense.

I repeat, Damn! No wonder we find time travel such a productive vehicle when creating fiction.

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 11, 2020

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

There’s an old saying, “Fridays are the Monday-mornings of living a full and satisfying life.”

Why the love-hate relationship between clarks and the most looked-forward-to day of the workweek?

Consider that your homework.

New Readers! While our subscriptioneers get busy organizing their notes, and make sure they have enough yellow-highlights, clear-plastic rulers, No.2 pencils and, to be ready to take the assignment-completion-process up to the next level, a supply of three-by-five index cards; (Of course, there’s a cork board and little colored pins!), lets go for a quick tour of the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Wakefield Doctrine starts out with three different (yet intricately interrelated) predominant worldviews. ‘Predominant worldview’ is the preferred term denoting personal reality writ large. While scraping the guardrails in terms of a distinction between what an individual’s subjective reality is and the proposition that the whole, yeah, everything, world that is considered ‘reality’, knowing the differences between the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine are essential to deriving the benefits of this unique, fun and quite useful perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.*

We’re born with the possibility of having one, (of three), predominant worldviews being established (the the ‘other two’ becoming secondary), and thereby being our ‘reality’. It (the predominant worldview) shapes, influences and serves as the context in which we develop the tools and strategies that shape our subsequent relationship with life …and such.

The three are:

the reality of the Outsider(clarks)

the world of the Predator(scotts)

the life of the Herd Member(rogers)

If discussed in terms of personality types, the above are the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. For the Doctrine, personality type is not an assignment or a categorization based on a how many of a number of predetermined characteristics, traits or inclinations an individual demonstrates. Personality type is, for the Wakefield Doctrine, a description of how a person relates themselves to the world around them.

Learn the characteristics of the three, ask the question: “How is this person/how am I relating themselves/myself to the world around?”

The cool and fun part is the accuracy of the descriptions of the three ways to relate to the world.

There’s a bunch more to learn, but…. today is Friday. So have fun on the weekend.

* total, long-running, and favorite play-on-words here at the Doctrine… (and a totally obtuse reference to the ideas on reality as Carlos Castaneda so elegantly presented in his writings, i.e. reality is perception and the players contribute to the script, to mix as many metaphors and rhetorical devices as possible… ya know?)